Seems Quotes

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

If one really knew what one was doing, why do it? It seems to me if you had the answer why ask the question? The thing is there are so many questions.

If the mortality rate seems high we must realize that Nature is a ruthless teacher. There are no second chances in Mother Nature's Survival Course.

I want to get a job naming kitchen appliances. That seems easy; refrigerator, toaster, blender. You just say what the thing does and add "er".

It seems that in connecting to what is true within myself, I help other people to connect. Making genuine connection lies at the beginning of building a real community.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.

The character of a woman rapidly develops after marriage, and sometimes seems to change, when in fact it is only complete.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

[Donald] Trump's narcissism seems to be reflected in his need to be liked and treated positively.

When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.

A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

I've noticed that the more adventurous and in that mode that I am, it seems that the more the audience really likes it.

Sometimes it seems to me that that’s all my life has been, a series of things that I loved deeply that I could never have.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

Sensationalism seems to sell more than wonderful-positive news.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

I read once that [Pablo] Picasso felt if an artist ever felt totally satisfied with a work she ceased to be an artist. With that in mind, it seems like goals are a terrible idea then.

Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.

What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

But it seems to me that if God had intended for you to cover your face then, in His wisdom, He would have provided you with a flap of skin for the purpose.

It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.

The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film.

Have you ever had one of those days when something just seems to be trying to tell you somebody?

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling.

All of us have the capacity to attract to ourselves what seems to be missing in our lives.

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

The light of the Way seems dim.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.

In fact, it seems to me that making strategic alliances across national borders in order to treat HIV among the world's poor is one of the last great hopes of solidarity across a widening divide.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.